The Council of Europe's Pompidou Group is organising a Conference on ''European perspectives on Drug Courts'', in Strasbourg on 27 and 28 March. The Conference will present the concept of drug courts, which are one of the ways to divert drug dependent offenders from the traditional criminal justice system - in particular from imprisonment - by imposing multidisciplinary, court-supervised treatment and rehabilitation programmes. A study on ''International drug court developments, models in different jurisdictions, what is working and what is not, what now?'' will also be discussed.(more...) Programme Special file